NGO - Anti-globalists prepare for December

Hong Kong papers report on the preperatory meeting of anti-global groups in Hong Kong as they prepare for a WTO-meeting there at the end of the year. They have asked the local police for an international NGO liason officer.

According to Margrete Strand Rangnes of conservation group Sierra Club in the
United States, the presence of such an "international NGO liaison officer''
during the last ministerial meeting in September 2003 in Cancun, Mexico, was a
significant factor in explaining the lack of violence there.

Hong Kong blogger Simon World thinks it is all a big joke, but cities who had their visitors coming along might think differently.